Cash Carraway
Cash Carraway | |
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Carraway at the 2024 Royal Television Society Awards 2024 with her award for Best Scripted Drama for Rain Dogs | |
| Born | Camberwell, London, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Notable work | Rain Dogs, Skint Estate |
Cash Carraway is an Irish-English[1] screenwriter, director, and executive producer[2] best known for creating and writing the HBO series, Rain Dogs[3][4] for which she was nominated for a Gotham Award and won a BAFTA Breakthrough.[5][6]
Early life
Cash Carraway was born in Camberwell, London, to Irish Catholic parents from Lettermore, County Galway, and attended Carshalton High School for Girls and the BRIT School.[7]
Career
Cash Carraway is the creator, writer, and showrunner of the HBO/BBC comedy drama Rain Dogs. [8][9]
In 2019 Penguin Books published Carraway's debut book Skint Estate. It was met with critical acclaim and The Times called her "The new voice of a generation." [10]
The British Comedy Guide announced three new Carraway projects. A sitcom titled Big Shot for Boffola Pictures, a comedy drama called Reserve List for Objective Fiction, and a feature film with Playground Entertainment.[11]
Accolades
She was nominated for a Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Series.[12] Carraway was awarded a place on the 2023 BAFTA Breakthrough list.[13]
Rain Dogs won a Royal Television Society Award for Best Scripted.[14]
Her writing is often compared to Hubert Selby Jr. and Charles Bukowski.[15] Time described Carraway's writing style as "Raunchy gallows humour. And she's genius at it."[16]
Influences
Her artistic influences include the cinematic works of Paul Schrader and Jean-Luc Godard as well as the satirist Chris Morris and screenwriter John Sullivan.[17][18][19][20]
Personal life
She resides in Highgate, North London[21] and Los Angeles.[22]
Published works
Plays
- The Last Peepshow in Soho (Soho Theatre)
- The French Inhaler (Clean Break)
- Refuge Woman (Battersea Arts Centre)
Books
- Skint Estate: Notes from the Poverty Line (2019; Penguin Random House)
- La Porca Miseria (2023; Alegre)
TV
- Rain Dogs (BBC/HBO) – creator, writer, executive producer
References
- ^ "Curtis Brown". www.curtisbrown.co.uk. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
- ^ "Celebrating 10 years of BAFTA Breakthrough: 2023 global cohort announced today". www.bafta.org. 29 November 2023. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
- ^ "HBO Boards BBC Drama 'Rain Dogs' From New Writer Cash Carraway, Starring Daisy May Cooper". Deadline. 15 July 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
- ^ "Production begins on Cash Carraway's new BBC Drama Rain Dogs". BBC. 15 July 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
- ^ LaMantia, Brooke (28 November 2023). "Gotham Awards 2023: All the Looks". The Cut. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
- ^ "'I like telling stories about contradictory humans': Meet 2023's Bafta Breakthroughs". The Independent. 1 December 2023. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
- ^ S11E08 - Cash Carraway, 23 December 2023, retrieved 19 December 2024
- ^ "Rain Dogs is a brilliant, bleak sketch of life at the arse-end of Sunak's Britain". The Independent. 12 April 2023. Retrieved 14 March 2026.
- ^ Ritman, Alex (14 June 2024). "'Rain Dogs' Creator Cash Carraway Signs With CAA (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 15 March 2026.
- ^ "Cash Carraway talks creating Rain Dogs, auto-fiction and leaving behind 'poverty porn' | Royal Television Society". rts.org.uk. 26 May 2023. Retrieved 15 March 2026.
- ^ Guide, British Comedy (30 November 2023). "BAFTA Breakthroughs 2023 interview - BCG Pro". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
- ^ Goldsmith, Jill (24 October 2023). "Gotham Awards Nominations: 'All Of Us Strangers' Tops Movie List; Ryan Gosling Gets 'Barbie' Nom With Budget Caps Removed". Deadline. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
- ^ "Cash Carraway | Creator, Writer, Executive Producer". www.bafta.org. 27 November 2023. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
- ^ "RTS West of England Awards 2024 -winners announced!". Royal Television Society. 22 April 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
- ^ "Devastating dispatches from the war against the poor". Morning Star. 17 July 2019. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ "HBO's Superb Rain Dogs Is Like No Other Family Comedy on TV". Time. 6 March 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
- ^ "Cash Carraway's True Grit". Television Academy. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
- ^ Dean, Sadie (11 April 2023). "Simplicity of Narrative & Complexity of Character: A Conversation with HBO's 'Rain Dogs' Creator and Writer Cash Carraway". Script Magazine. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
- ^ Maxwell, Dominic (2 December 2023). "Poldark's Jack Farthing, from Prince Charles to king drifter". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
- ^ Lobb, Adrian (4 April 2023). "Cash Carraway on Rain Dogs: 'We always see working-class stories through a middle-class gaze'". The Big Issue. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
- ^ S11E08 - Cash Carraway, 23 December 2023, retrieved 20 December 2024
- ^ Ritman, Alex (14 June 2024). "'Rain Dogs' Creator Cash Carraway Signs With CAA (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 20 December 2024.